The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
GORE VIDALWhat is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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I hate nobody.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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I’m always an optimist!
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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